This is the “wedge” Republicans will use to destroy Amtrak. The IG issue is a viable matter of dispute. Amtrak is a mess. Too bad for rail passengers.

Amtrak’s independent investigative officer is asking the U.S. Postal Service to look into whether Amtrak officials misused the e-mail system by searching for communiqués between his office and Congress about the unexpected retirement of Amtrak’s longtime inspector general, according to House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif